2022: San Mateo County’s year of working together to end homelessness

Published on September 26, 2022

The San Mateo County board of supervisors unanimously approved allocating $2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to fund a new program called Working Together to End Homelessness Innovation Grants. Nonprofit and faith-based organizations, cities, towns and affiliated agencies that serve homeless residents in San Mateo County may apply by Oct. 7 at 5 p.m.

Applicants must develop a plan to addresses how to engage those living on streets or encampments or those living in vehicles with services or develop innovative ways to assist the homeless and formerly homeless with job training, work experience and other steps toward financial self-sufficiency. Work supported by the grants must be completed by July 1, 2024.

Projects could be brand-new ideas or those tested elsewhere but new to San Mateo County. Applicants can also pitch ideas that have worked at small scale in the county with the goal of expanding countywide.

Applications should be sent by email to Clerk of the Board Sherry Golestan.

Join San Mateo County’s Working Together to End Homelessness Summit, where participants will help the County develop a Homelessness Action Plan. Information learned during the virtual events over the past year will develop the path forward.

Working Together to End Homelessness Summit
Fri, Oct. 28, 2022
8 a.m.–1 p.m.
The Westin Hotel
1 Old Bayshore Highway
Millbrae, CA 94030